In that eerie silence.
The girl at the center of everyone's gaze suddenly moved.
She took a seemingly casual step forward.
Her figure flashed, and she swept straight to Chu Duanliu's side.
Chu Duanliu's eyelids twitched wildly as he instinctively tried to retreat.
But before he could move, a slender arm had already reached over familiarly and hooked around his neck.
"You all... why be so polite? Coming up and giving me such a grand gift... I don't really have anything to entertain you with. Let's go outside and talk."
Her cool voice drifted through the night wind.
"..."
Not only were the Great Tang people, who had been braced for battle, stunned, even the Blackwater Pool demons who had come charging in with murderous momentum stared in utter bewilderment.
No.
What was this situation?
Had their intentions not been obvious enough?!
But what terrified Chu Zhenshan even more was—
His younger brother, who had always been hot-tempered, was actually keeping silent and obediently following the girl step by step toward the city gates.
"Chu Duanliu, did you fucking switch sides?!"
Countless thoughts flashed through Chu Zhenshan's mind in an instant.
No wonder this bastard had desperately urged him to come to Wind-Listening River back in the cave abode...
So this was where he had been waiting for him?!
"I... I didn't..."
Chu Duanliu's face flushed purple-red as he helplessly looked back.
Who could have imagined... that a mere lower cultivator of the Cinnabar Flow Realm would be so terrifying!
That arm looked delicate as it rested around his neck, but it carried an immovable, crushing force.
He did not even have the slightest room to resist!
He could only be dragged forward alive.
At that thought.
He desperately tried to open his mouth and explain, but in the next